number, but given over and above, or, in the vulgar phrase,
  free gratis for nothing.  This piece of discipline is also
  inflicted in Ireland, by the school-boys, on persons coming
  into the school without taking off their hats; it is there
  called school butter.

Cobble.  A kind of boat.

To Cobble.  To mend, or patch; likewise to do a thing in
  a bungling manner.

Cobble Colter.  A turkey.

Cobbler.  A mender of shoes, an improver of the understandings of
  his customers; a translator.

Cobblers punch.  Treacle, vinegar, gin, and water.

Cock, or chief cock of the walk.  The leading man
  in any society or body; the best boxer in a village or
  district.

Cock ale.  A provocative drink.

Cock alley or cock lane.  The private parts of a woman.

Cock and A bull story.  A roundabout story, without
  head or tail, i.e. beginning or ending.

Cock of the company.  A weak man, who from the desire of being the
  head of the company associates with low
  people, and pays all the reckoning.

Cock-A-whoop.  Elevated, in high-spirits, transported with joy.

Cock bawd.  A male keeper of a bawdy-house.

Cock hoist. A cross buttock.

COCKISH.  Wanton, forward.  A cockish wench; a forward
  coming girl.

COCKLES.  To cry cockles; to be hanged:  perhaps from the
  noise made whilst strangling.  Cant.—­This will rejoice
  the cockles of one’s heart; a saying in praise of wine, ale,
  or spirituous liquors.

Cock pimp.  The supposed husband of a bawd.

Cock robin.  A soft, easy fellow.

Cock-sure.  Certain:  a metaphor borrowed front the cock
  of a firelock, as being much more certain to fire than the
  match.

Cock your eye.  Shut one eye:  thus translated into apothecaries
  Latin.—­Gallus tuus ego.

Cocker.  One fond of the diversion of cock-fighting.

Cockney:  A nick name given to the citizens of London,
  or persons born within the sound of Bow bell, derived
  from the following story:  A citizen of London, being in
  the country, and hearing a horse neigh, exclaimed,
  Lord! how that horse laughs!  A by-stander telling him
  that noise was called NEIGHING, the next morning, when
  the cock crowed, the citizen to shew he had not forgot
  what was told him, cried out, Do you hear how the cock
  NEIGHS?  The king of the cockneys is mentioned among
  the regulations for the sports and shows